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Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by abruzzi »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #86
spaetzleesser wrote: post #38

When I look at this I think how these old UIs like MacOS, windows 95 or 2000 were designed for clarity and usability. And how things have gone downhill since then. I really miss easily distinguishable UI elements.

I'm of two minds. The Mac famously had User Interface Guidelines that tried to keep everything consistent. I loved it and, like you, miss it. But then designers came along and we got drawers (and then we lost the drawers), editable toolbars, brushed metal (and then not), etc... The point at which I called bullshit was when Safari combined the URL text field with the loading progress bar. I disagreed with the design a…

before the OS vendors started ignoring their human interface guidelines, we had Kai's Power Tools, which some people loved--but I hated. I dont know if that was the beginning of custom UIs for every applications, or if it was just an outlier.

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Post by dom96 »

Pretty cool. Tried to launch Warcraft though and it had a lot of graphical glitches (this is on Firefox/Windows)

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by unpixer »

gnicholas wrote: post #74
doubled112 wrote: post #7

It's exactly how I remember the Macs my grade school was using back then. Click around a little bit, and boom, it is frozen. Do you wait? Do you force quit? The watch gives little feedback.

Set the system clock to display seconds and then you can tell when/how long it's been frozen.

Found another greybeard Mac user! I learned this trick under System 6 and used it religiously until just recently. (My clock keeps perfect time, but seconds don't update, under MATE Compiz. Go figure.)

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by wk_end »

mihaip wrote: post #99

Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/

Just as a heads up -

I went to go create a new project in Think Pascal, and when I tried to enter a name all my keystrokes came out as boxes.

Using Chrome 100 on macOS Big Sur. English (Canadian) key layout.

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by smm11 »

robbyking wrote: post #62
flemhans wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hotline didn't come bundled with the OS but was definitely good times. Edit: oh and Carracho!

What's funny is I didn't remember it coming bundled, but it was on the linked site so I figured I just forgot.

I was at a place in the very early 2000s, and ran into our 'music server.' Everyone seemingly brought in and ripped all their CDs to this folder, and it was basically Spotify or something. Several terabytes - we were a re-seller of computers, so had the room for it.

This may have been during the iPod times, I recall having all the music I'd ever need. Knowing who was there, I have no doubt that's where a lot of Spotify came from.

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Post by wazoox »

dmje wrote: post #132

Anyone remember any names of DAWs back then? - I had it on my Mac Classic round about 92-95. I thought it was called EasyStudio but man, apparently it was a while ago and I seem to be getting forgetful...

I used Digidesign Sound Tools and Sound Tools II on a Mac IIx at the studio from 91 to 93, also Opcode Studio Vision (using the Digidesign card); then we upgraded with another piece of Digidesign kit that was some sort of "ProTools lite", with a large rack-mounted audio I/O box.

Most people still used Cubase on Atari 1040ST back then for their musical musings ;)

Re: Infinite Mac

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Post by smm11 »

ubermonkey wrote: post #137

Some of y'all are YOUNG. LOL. I first used a Mac in about 1989, in college. I first got DEEP into one, for desktop publishing, a couple years later. I didn't OWN one until my late 20s, which by that point was an OS 9 environment for a couple years until OS X happened. I never loved the old System like some Mac people do. It was faster and more stable than Win98, and definitely worked better on laptops, but that was a…

My Apple IIe was a BBS in 1982.
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